https://nathanvoisey.com/ Notes on being human, understanding the world, and figuring out how things actually work — philosophy, history, systems, skills, experiments, and the strange machinery of everyday life. en-us https://nathanvoisey.com/notes/fasting-and-meditation/ https://nathanvoisey.com/notes/fasting-and-meditation/ Wed, 28 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nathan Voisey Practical methods for personal transformation, drawn from direct experience, Christian monks, Buddhist teachers, Taoist philosophers, and ancient Indian texts. https://nathanvoisey.com/notes/how-fasting-changed-their-lives/ https://nathanvoisey.com/notes/how-fasting-changed-their-lives/ Wed, 28 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nathan Voisey From weight loss and improved health to renewed energy, inner peace, and a different way of living. https://nathanvoisey.com/notes/what-is-fasting/ https://nathanvoisey.com/notes/what-is-fasting/ Tue, 27 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nathan Voisey When food stops arriving, the human body doesn't simply run down like a phone with a dying battery. https://nathanvoisey.com/notes/how-to-fast/ https://nathanvoisey.com/notes/how-to-fast/ Tue, 27 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nathan Voisey The real skill is choosing a sensible duration, carrying on with life, recognizing when something needs attention, and returning to eating appropriately. https://nathanvoisey.com/notes/the-three-day-fast/ https://nathanvoisey.com/notes/the-three-day-fast/ Tue, 27 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nathan Voisey Over seventy-two hours, a well-nourished person moves from normal post-meal metabolism into a state where stored fat, newly produced glucose, and ketones are doing much more of the work. https://nathanvoisey.com/notes/the-seven-day-fast/ https://nathanvoisey.com/notes/the-seven-day-fast/ Tue, 27 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nathan Voisey The body adapts brilliantly; adaptation still has a cost. https://nathanvoisey.com/notes/fasting-beyond-seven-days/ https://nathanvoisey.com/notes/fasting-beyond-seven-days/ Tue, 27 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nathan Voisey The human body's ability to survive is astonishing. The conclusion that extreme fasting is therefore a good idea does not follow. https://nathanvoisey.com/notes/modified-fasting/ https://nathanvoisey.com/notes/modified-fasting/ Tue, 27 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nathan Voisey What modern research and traditional practices reveal about fasting without giving up food entirely. https://nathanvoisey.com/notes/the-people-who-stopped-eating/ https://nathanvoisey.com/notes/the-people-who-stopped-eating/ Tue, 27 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nathan Voisey Forty days, 382 days, and the extraordinary things people have sought through fasting. https://nathanvoisey.com/notes/why-humans-fast/ https://nathanvoisey.com/notes/why-humans-fast/ Tue, 27 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nathan Voisey Fasting has appeared in different traditions for different reasons, often without a single shared origin. https://nathanvoisey.com/notes/the-master-gentlemans-code/ https://nathanvoisey.com/notes/the-master-gentlemans-code/ Tue, 27 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nathan Voisey When the world becomes chaotic, do not become chaotic with it. https://nathanvoisey.com/notes/a-puff-piece-for-thrive-ultimate/ https://nathanvoisey.com/notes/a-puff-piece-for-thrive-ultimate/ Tue, 27 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nathan Voisey I like this stuff. Is there actually a good reason why? https://nathanvoisey.com/notes/the-nerd-review-of-the-daily-green-drink/ https://nathanvoisey.com/notes/the-nerd-review-of-the-daily-green-drink/ Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nathan Voisey What the science supports, what anecdotes can tell us, and where concentration or plant-defense chemistry complicates the picture. https://nathanvoisey.com/notes/the-green-drinks-cultural-history/ https://nathanvoisey.com/notes/the-green-drinks-cultural-history/ Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nathan Voisey How plant tonics, blenders, wheatgrass, Hollywood, wellness culture, and luxury retail turned green liquid into a cultural symbol. https://nathanvoisey.com/notes/the-green-drink-economy/ https://nathanvoisey.com/notes/the-green-drink-economy/ Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nathan Voisey How convenience, ritual, subscriptions, branding, and status created a multibillion-dollar market around something as simple as drinking plants. https://nathanvoisey.com/notes/what-hubbards-detoxification-protocol-actually-is/ https://nathanvoisey.com/notes/what-hubbards-detoxification-protocol-actually-is/ Sun, 25 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nathan Voisey The Purification Rundown is not merely a sauna program. It is a system. https://nathanvoisey.com/notes/why-did-hubbard-use-megadoses/ https://nathanvoisey.com/notes/why-did-hubbard-use-megadoses/ Sun, 25 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nathan Voisey The hidden nutritional theory behind the Purification Rundown. https://nathanvoisey.com/notes/does-the-hubbard-detox-remove-chemicals-from-the-body/ https://nathanvoisey.com/notes/does-the-hubbard-detox-remove-chemicals-from-the-body/ Sun, 25 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nathan Voisey The central claim behind Hubbard’s detoxification program is surprisingly easy to test. Researchers began doing exactly that more than forty years ago. https://nathanvoisey.com/notes/does-the-hubbard-detox-make-people-healthier/ https://nathanvoisey.com/notes/does-the-hubbard-detox-make-people-healthier/ Sun, 25 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nathan Voisey Reducing a laboratory measurement is interesting. Feeling better is more important. https://nathanvoisey.com/notes/forty-years-of-the-hubbard-detox/ https://nathanvoisey.com/notes/forty-years-of-the-hubbard-detox/ Sun, 25 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nathan Voisey Can we preserve what seems useful while making the intervention safer, shorter, and more precise? https://nathanvoisey.com/notes/maybe-you-should-try-the-hubbard-detox/ https://nathanvoisey.com/notes/maybe-you-should-try-the-hubbard-detox/ Sun, 25 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nathan Voisey What people who actually did it say happened. https://nathanvoisey.com/notes/where-the-purification-rundown-fits-into-scientology/ https://nathanvoisey.com/notes/where-the-purification-rundown-fits-into-scientology/ Sun, 25 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nathan Voisey Inside Scientology, the Purification Rundown isn’t primarily supposed to be a health spa. It has a specific job. https://nathanvoisey.com/notes/the-traditional-family-was-a-socio-political-economic-system/ https://nathanvoisey.com/notes/the-traditional-family-was-a-socio-political-economic-system/ Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nathan Voisey For most of history the family was a farm, a business, a school, and a welfare system at once. Traditional roles make sense only inside that household. https://nathanvoisey.com/notes/men-women-things-and-people/ https://nathanvoisey.com/notes/men-women-things-and-people/ Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nathan Voisey Men and women overlap enormously, but some average differences in strength, reproduction, and interests were large enough to shape how work was divided. https://nathanvoisey.com/notes/the-breadwinner-homemaker-family-was-not-the-original-traditional-family/ https://nathanvoisey.com/notes/the-breadwinner-homemaker-family-was-not-the-original-traditional-family/ Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nathan Voisey The 1950s homemaker was one stage, not the original. Before industry, the household was a workplace where men, women, and children all produced. https://nathanvoisey.com/notes/why-relationship-roles-changed/ https://nathanvoisey.com/notes/why-relationship-roles-changed/ Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nathan Voisey Machines, smaller families, contraception, education, and outsourced housework changed what a family had to do. The roles changed with it. https://nathanvoisey.com/notes/what-work-did-men-and-women-actually-do/ https://nathanvoisey.com/notes/what-work-did-men-and-women-actually-do/ Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nathan Voisey “Men worked, women stayed home” is wrong. So is “they always did the same work.” The record shows shared household production with specialization. https://nathanvoisey.com/notes/how-much-did-men-and-women-actually-work/ https://nathanvoisey.com/notes/how-much-did-men-and-women-actually-work/ Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nathan Voisey Who worked more, men or women? The records are thin, but the work was always there. What changed is how it splits between the home and the market. https://nathanvoisey.com/notes/marriage-as-a-welfare-system/ https://nathanvoisey.com/notes/marriage-as-a-welfare-system/ Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nathan Voisey Before governments built welfare systems, families already had one. Marriage pooled the risks of sickness, old age, widowhood, and lost work. https://nathanvoisey.com/notes/marriage-as-an-economic-partnership/ https://nathanvoisey.com/notes/marriage-as-an-economic-partnership/ Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nathan Voisey Marriage is also a small economy: shared costs, specialization, pooled income, and pooled risk. The romance mattered. So did the balance sheet. https://nathanvoisey.com/notes/marriage-as-a-social-institution/ https://nathanvoisey.com/notes/marriage-as-a-social-institution/ Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nathan Voisey Marriage creates more than a couple. It creates in-laws, heirs, obligations, and a public status, turning private relationships into social structure. https://nathanvoisey.com/notes/marriage-as-a-political-and-legal-institution/ https://nathanvoisey.com/notes/marriage-as-a-political-and-legal-institution/ Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nathan Voisey Coverture bound a husband's authority to his liabilities, and a wife's protections to her restrictions. Old marriage law has to be judged as a system. https://nathanvoisey.com/notes/marriage-as-an-intergenerational-institution/ https://nathanvoisey.com/notes/marriage-as-an-intergenerational-institution/ Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nathan Voisey Modern couples are judged on how happy they are. Traditional marriage also asked: what are these two building that will outlast them? https://nathanvoisey.com/notes/what-did-the-modern-state-and-market-take-over-from-the-family/ https://nathanvoisey.com/notes/what-did-the-modern-state-and-market-take-over-from-the-family/ Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nathan Voisey Factories, schools, hospitals, insurance, and pensions took over jobs the family once did. Which were done better, and what was lost on the way? https://nathanvoisey.com/notes/two-incomes-changed-the-household/ https://nathanvoisey.com/notes/two-incomes-changed-the-household/ Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nathan Voisey Two incomes gave households more money and more independence, and made time the scarcest thing a family has. https://nathanvoisey.com/notes/specialization-vs-symmetry/ https://nathanvoisey.com/notes/specialization-vs-symmetry/ Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nathan Voisey Divide the household by strengths, or share everything? Specialization buys efficiency with dependence; symmetry buys independence with coordination. https://nathanvoisey.com/notes/the-individual-vs-the-family/ https://nathanvoisey.com/notes/the-individual-vs-the-family/ Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nathan Voisey What do I want, or what does the family need? Marriage joins lives without erasing the people in them, and that tension never fully goes away. https://nathanvoisey.com/notes/duty-vs-fulfillment/ https://nathanvoisey.com/notes/duty-vs-fulfillment/ Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nathan Voisey Stay because you promised, or because it makes life better? Duty without fulfillment becomes endurance. Fulfillment without duty becomes conditional. https://nathanvoisey.com/notes/equality-vs-complementarity/ https://nathanvoisey.com/notes/equality-vs-complementarity/ Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nathan Voisey Everyone agrees marriage should be equal, until they define it. Equal dignity, equal work, equal sacrifice, and equal opportunity are different things. https://nathanvoisey.com/notes/leadership-vs-negotiation/ https://nathanvoisey.com/notes/leadership-vs-negotiation/ Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nathan Voisey When two people disagree, someone has to decide. Leadership buys clarity and accountability; negotiation buys voice and consent. Both can fail. https://nathanvoisey.com/notes/stability-vs-flexibility/ https://nathanvoisey.com/notes/stability-vs-flexibility/ Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nathan Voisey Permanence keeps some marriages going longer than it should. Easy exit ends some sooner than it needed to. Every culture picks which error it fears more. https://nathanvoisey.com/notes/which-parts-of-the-traditional-family-still-solve-modern-problems/ https://nathanvoisey.com/notes/which-parts-of-the-traditional-family-still-solve-modern-problems/ Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nathan Voisey Permanence, clear roles, extended family, routines, duty, and roots still solve problems people have. What tradition got right, and what can stay behind. https://nathanvoisey.com/notes/choose-a-relationship-model-deliberately/ https://nathanvoisey.com/notes/choose-a-relationship-model-deliberately/ Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nathan Voisey Every couple runs on a model, chosen or not. Decide what commitment, equality, money, children, and family mean before circumstances decide for you. https://nathanvoisey.com/notes/what-is-a-gentleman/ https://nathanvoisey.com/notes/what-is-a-gentleman/ Sun, 18 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nathan Voisey Not suits or knowing which fork to use. A gentleman is a way of being: at peace with himself, responsible, capable, useful, and glad to be alive. https://nathanvoisey.com/notes/identity-become-a-man-you-can-respect/ https://nathanvoisey.com/notes/identity-become-a-man-you-can-respect/ Sun, 18 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nathan Voisey A gentleman's life begins with the man he is when nobody is watching: inner peace first, then self-possession, then character built from small choices. https://nathanvoisey.com/notes/health-be-capable-of-carrying-your-own-weight/ https://nathanvoisey.com/notes/health-be-capable-of-carrying-your-own-weight/ Sun, 18 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nathan Voisey A gentleman cares for his body to stay capable, not to look perfect: train for life, eat real food, protect sleep, and fix small problems early. https://nathanvoisey.com/notes/residence-make-a-good-home/ https://nathanvoisey.com/notes/residence-make-a-good-home/ Sun, 18 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nathan Voisey Your home is where you sleep, recover, host, and repair. Keep it in order, learn the skills that end helplessness, add beauty, and welcome people. https://nathanvoisey.com/notes/family-build-something-that-outlives-you/ https://nathanvoisey.com/notes/family-build-something-that-outlives-you/ Sun, 18 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nathan Voisey Family is where character becomes personal. Be present, create stability, teach what you know, keep traditions, and leave something worth inheriting. https://nathanvoisey.com/notes/career-become-useful-competent-and-excellent/ https://nathanvoisey.com/notes/career-become-useful-competent-and-excellent/ Sun, 18 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nathan Voisey A good career is not a title or a salary. It is a field where you keep getting better at solving worthwhile problems, then help others grow. https://nathanvoisey.com/notes/wealth-build-steward-and-use-money-well/ https://nathanvoisey.com/notes/wealth-build-steward-and-use-money-well/ Sun, 18 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nathan Voisey Money is stored capability. Earn it honestly, spend it deliberately, build margin, learn to own assets, and use it to expand what people can do. https://nathanvoisey.com/notes/community-be-a-good-neighbour-and-citizen/ https://nathanvoisey.com/notes/community-be-a-good-neighbour-and-citizen/ Sun, 18 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nathan Voisey Civilization happens locally. Know your neighbours, support the institutions that need people to show up, help where you can, and disagree civilly. https://nathanvoisey.com/notes/hobbies-learn-things-simply-because-they-are-worth-knowing/ https://nathanvoisey.com/notes/hobbies-learn-things-simply-because-they-are-worth-knowing/ Sun, 18 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nathan Voisey A man should have interests nobody pays him for. Work with your hands, study something useless, get good at it, and let some things just be yours. https://nathanvoisey.com/notes/adventure-go-see-what-is-out-there/ https://nathanvoisey.com/notes/adventure-go-see-what-is-out-there/ Sun, 18 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nathan Voisey Information is valuable. Experience is different. Explore close to home, do things that ask something of you, and come home seeing it differently. https://nathanvoisey.com/notes/what-is-conservatism/ https://nathanvoisey.com/notes/what-is-conservatism/ Sun, 18 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nathan Voisey Not resistance to change, but respect for accumulated knowledge: preserve what works, repair what can be repaired, and replace what has been surpassed. https://nathanvoisey.com/notes/what-is-traditionalism/ https://nathanvoisey.com/notes/what-is-traditionalism/ Sun, 18 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nathan Voisey Not a wish to live in the past. Tradition is human experience carried forward through practice, worth testing by its fruit and passing on improved. https://nathanvoisey.com/notes/what-does-a-traditional-conservative-relationship-look-like/ https://nathanvoisey.com/notes/what-does-a-traditional-conservative-relationship-look-like/ Sun, 18 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nathan Voisey A relationship larger than either person: commitment before convenience, duties taken seriously, and roles that serve the family and the next generation. https://nathanvoisey.com/notes/what-does-a-modern-relationship-look-like/ https://nathanvoisey.com/notes/what-does-a-modern-relationship-look-like/ Sun, 18 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nathan Voisey Two independent people freely choose a life together and negotiate the rest. Its strengths are freedom and equality; its danger is impermanence. https://nathanvoisey.com/notes/traditional-vs-modern-relationships-what-does-each-get-right/ https://nathanvoisey.com/notes/traditional-vs-modern-relationships-what-does-each-get-right/ Sun, 18 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nathan Voisey Tradition gets commitment, duty, and continuity right. Modernity gets consent, equality, and agency right. The strongest relationships keep both. https://nathanvoisey.com/notes/who-does-what-in-a-marriage/ https://nathanvoisey.com/notes/who-does-what-in-a-marriage/ Sun, 18 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nathan Voisey A template for couples: every duty in a marriage as a question, with the traditional and the modern answer side by side. Use it to decide who does what.